In this section, you can search for the website contents concerning the rights of children enshrined in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child of 1989.
More general topics concerning human and civil rights and a collection of regional, national, European and international regulations on children have also been included.
You can also search for materials on the actions and activities of the institutions and organizations working for the protection of children.
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The right of access of the non-custodial parent
How to protect the best interests of minors in private meetings
The issue addressed in the judgment of 10 November 2021 by the European Court of Human...
The future I would like is the new online public consultation aimed at adolescents between 14 and 18 years old launched by the Italian Ombudsman for Children (AGIA) Carla Garlatti on 16 January to gather the...
Children and young people's right to education: a legal framework
The right to education is an undeniable human right to be placed within the framework of...
Protection of minors' rights in civil, administrative and family law proceedings: an in-depth overview of the law
It is hard to dispute that since the approval of the Convention on the Rights of Children and...
On 16, 17 and 18 December last year, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (Yab) met in Milan for the third time to discuss the implementation of the Child Guarantee, an initiative by the European...
This is a guide to help officials of local and national institutions, school headteachers, teachers and other professionals to establish or strengthen Children's and Youth Councils, bodies composed of under-18s appointed to become their...
The Agenda for Children and Adolescents. 10 steps to make a practical commitment to the new generations is online on the website of the CRC Group (Working Group for the Convention on the Rights of Children and...
The supplement to issue 3/2022 of the Bibliographic Review consists of a reading programme entitled 'Diritto alla partecipazione di bambini, bambine, ragazzi e ragazze: il percorso dell’acquisizione di una consapevolezza (Right...
The severe crisis we are experiencing, exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, affects everyone, but we must not forget that children and adolescents pay the highest price. This is precisely why it is crucial...
A guide to accompany coaches and sports managers in their work to support the growth of children involved in sports activities.
The publication, entitled The Protection of the Rights of Children in Sport, was presented...
The position statement on climate justice adopted at the Network's General Assembly on 21 September is now online on the website of the European Network of Advocates for Children and Adolescents (ENOC). The position statement is a short...
The best interests of children: the protection of rights in civil, administrative, and family proceedings
Do the best interests of children always take precedence, even in cross-border disputes?
...The National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, Mauro Palma, and the president of Unicef Italy, Carmela Pace, signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to promote children's rights,...
On 12 July, the Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, Elena Bonetti, approved the Guidelines for the Participation of Girls and Boys by decree. The document, adopted by the National Observatory for Childhood...
The parent-child relationship, amid the rights and needs for protection: meetings in a protected environment is the new initiative promoted by the Ombudsperson for Children (Agia) to carry out a review of the most...
Ending the detention of asylum seekers, refugees and migrant children across Europe. UNCHR, UNICEF and IOM repeated this in a joint study reviewing the relevant policies of European countries.
An advocacy document from which the...
An estimated 10 million children were displaced by weather-related shocks in 2020 alone. Approximately one billion (almost half of the world's 2.2 billion children), in contrast, live in 33 countries considered to be at high risk due to...
The guidelines for the participation of children and young people are intended to offer and propose a renewed look at the participation practices of children and young people, presenting some ...
The definition of guidelines to be applied uniformly throughout Italy for the removal of children with the assistance of the police following a court order or urgent referral. This is the objective of the working table promoted in...
The Fifth National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and the development of children and adolescents has been approved by the National Observatory for childhood and adolescence ...
Advances and developments in participation and listening to children: a legal framework
Child participation in the society in which they live and in the decisions that affect them represents one of the most...
The young people who took part in the Forum entitled Let's Talk Young, Let's Talk About Climate Justice, held in Bilbao, Spain, from 28 to 30 June, tackled a very topical issue, climate justice.
The Forum - the...
The 12th Update Report on the monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Italy, produced by the hundred associations of the Group with the coordination of Arianna Saulini, of Save the Children, is online on the...
The right to access one's own origins. The mother's right to be forgotten prevails over the adoptee's right to know his or her origins.
The biological mother's alleged inability - by reason of her...
On the 11th and 12th of June, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) met for the second time in Rome to discuss the ongoing processes with the institutions on the priority issues dictated by the...
A survey of draft laws under discussion in Parliament on preventing and combating the abuse and mistreatment of children in the educational and school environment
Violence against children can take very...
The Report to Parliament 2021 by the Guarantor Authority for Childhood and Adolescence Carla Garlatti, available online on the website of the Authority, a key figure for the promotion and protection of children's rights...
Migrant children and adolescents, refugees, asylum seekers, both accompanied and unaccompanied: the rights and protections. A legal framework
Being a migrant, refugee or asylum-seeking child leads to the...
On 1 June, the National Observatory for Children and Adolescents approved the Guidelines for the participation of girls and boys. This is a very important document for all adults who share life experiences with young people in...
The right to health as a priority for the present and the future: a legal framework
April 7 marks World Health Day, an annual international event that is celebrated to draw attention to a topic of concern to...